"lily" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Five years ago, Mr. Avent sold two voodoo lilies.
- The $200 voodoo lily, Amorphophallus titanum, from Indonesia, sports a lone red 15-foot flower that smells like rotting meat (it's pollinated by flies).
- Maybe it's the confidence of maturity, like having a martini and not apologizing (and offering one to your voodoo lily).
- Scientists suspect that the genes that allow the voodoo lily to heat itself might someday be used to breed frost-resistant crops.
- Its less awesome cousin, the Southeast Asian voodoo lily, has fascinated botanists for two centuries.
- Global gardening continues to fire the craze for jungle plants: bananas, cannas, voodoo lilies and elephant ears.
- "I've seen the voodoo lily called scented, and it sure does have a smell."
- Some are scientific renditions, showing, for example, life phases of the voodoo lily.
- The voodoo lily uses the energy-producing organelles in its cells, known as mitochondria, to produce heat.
- Some species are called voodoo lily, as are some species of Typhonium (also in the Araceae).
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